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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
THE CHINCH BUG
Getting in His Work in Kanass
and Elsewhere.

CHICAGO, July 3.-The following crop
summary will appear in this weeks is
sue of the Farmers Review: Reports
on the yield of the winter wheat crop
reinow coming in, and thus far cOrrob-
CRATES our previous statements as to the
shortage that might be expected. Mis-
souri, leads in her average and is fol-
lowed by Illinois, while other states
have the following relative positions:
Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and
last Kansas, where chinch bugs have
done very serious damage. AS yet the
reports on the average of the winter
wheat crop are just beginning to come in,
5ut. the following from different states
furnishes a correct indication of the
final results of the harvest: Twelve
counties in Illinois report an average of
seventeen bushels, and four counties
place the average condition of the crop
at IS per cent. Nine counties i'll Indiana
place the average at fourteen bushels,
and three counties the average condition
at 30 per cent. Seven counties in Mich
iganx report an average yield of
fifteen bushels. Eleven counties in
Ohio report yield of thirteen bushels.
while FIVE counties report the condition
at S5 per cent. The yield in twelve
Missouri counties is eighteen bushels
and the condition in three is 10S per
cent. Five counties in Kentucky place
their Weld at sixteen bushels. In Kan-
sas nine counties report an average
yield of eleven bushels and five an aver
age condition of 55 per cent. Seventeen
counties in Illinois complain of damage
to crops by drouth. Like complaints
come from six counties in Indiana and
thirteen Kansas counties report dam
age from insects and drouth. Rain is
needed in Kentucky and Wisconsin,
and six Missouri counties complain of
damage by drouth. The condition of
the spring wheat in the different states
is as follows: Seventeen counties in
Iowa report an average condition of "a
per cent, willie thirteen counties in
Minnesota place it at Is per cent.
Eleven counties in Nebraska report an
average of Sc per cent, and the same
number in Dakota place it at SO per
cent. As was expected the hay crop
turns out light and pastures are
nearly everywhere dry. Prospects for
crop of apples in the West are fair to
mi1dling. In many places the fruit is
dropping from the trees.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
Big Firm Burned Out,

New YORK, July 3.-The firemen of
the lower districts had scarcely rested
from their battling with fires last night
when, at o'clock this morning, fire was
discovered in the cellars OF the big paper
warehouse of j. Q. Preble IL Co., "a and
81 Franklin and II White streets. The
policeman, who was first warned of the
fire by smoke, had not turned in a fire
alarm before the flames were roaring
through the first floor and flaring from
the windows. The fire was overcome
at 7:30 o'clock. The buildings are of
brick and five stories high, and were oc-
cupied solely by Preble IL Co. There
are three owners, thus: Fifty-four
Franklin is part of the Hammersley
estate, Sc Franklin belongs to J. q.
Preble, and "a White street to John NJ.
DOdd. The buildings are damaged S1S,-
coo, and Preble Il Co.'S loss is estimated
at 500, 600, the firm having much heavy
machinery. The house is one of the
best known in the line of envelopes and
blank books in the East and cir loss
is said to be insured. The cause of the
fire is unknown.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
Cleveland as He Really Is.

special 10 the GlODe.
WASHINGTON. July 3.-One of the
finest things to be seen at the Mime
apolis exhibition in August, will be the
case of specimens from the bureau of
engraving and printing i'm this city. 1t
will contain some fine samples Of work
done by Uncle Sans engraverS. There
will not only be bank notes and green
backs and other specimens of paper
money as engraved in the bureau, but
there will also be specimens of all the
different kinds of work done by the
governments skilled artisans. Among
other things will he a splendid en-
graved portrait of President Cleveland,
made from rough negative of him,
without any of the sOftening
finishing touches. The popular
pictures of the president do
not give an accurate idea of what man
ner of man he is. His skin is coarse and
rough. His eyes are wrinkled with
scr Jw feet" and the cOrrugatiOns in his
neck are enormous. Photographs are so
toned down by the artists that the pict-
ures of him which are commonly ac-
cepted as accurate and genuine are
false faces. They do not show him as
he really is. The engraving which will
be exhibited at Minneapolis will be al
most perfect; as nearly perfect as hu-
man hands can approach perfection.
Besides this portrait there will be EN-
cravings of Gen. Grant and the late
vice-President Hendricks. Also sam
pies of the best custom fee certificates,
army commissions, OleOmargarine, rev.
enue, and other stamps.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04

is that the young ladies afterwards
walked to the lower exit of the
building with the guides and never
saw single policeman to whom they
could complain. 1t is rather a poor
story and one not calculated to evoke
either compassion or immediate Gre
dence. 1t is possible that the naughty
guides did as charged: but, as they are
all reputable gentlemen, it is not likely
that they did any kissing while on duty,
unless directly or indirectly invited to
do so. ''Of course" says one of the
guides, lit is possible that the kissing
was done. No one can vouch for the
best mani who has lived since Joseph
ran away from Mrs. Potiphar: but, if
the demonstrations of affection were
made it is safe to say that the young
ladies did or said something to suggest
to the guides that they were expected
to show them how kissing under the
dome would be. In such an event prob
ably the oldest and coldest guide in the
world would try to accommodate" That,
tells the whole story.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04

staff, brought him the order
to place his guns where the monument
now is and whom he had not seen again
till last night He then presented Gen.
Payne as orator. who spoke for about
twenty minutes. When Col. COwan
transferred the monument to the Me
mortal association. in whose behalf it
was accepted by Capt. 5. c. Wagner.
Lieut.. William Sawyer, ON behalf of
the battery, then thanked Col. Cowan
for his efforts to bring about this dedi-
cation and make it success. Perhaps
the most interesting incident OF the
whole dedication was the presentation
by Col. COwan to the Pickett Division
association of sword which he took
during Pickett'S famous charge. 1t is
about three feet long. The handle is
of mother of pearl and the
The way it came into the possession of
Col. COwan was thus: During the
charge a very young rebel officer
jumped toward the gun at which he was
standing, but was Immediately shot
down and his sword fell at the cOlOneTS
feet. He kept it, but has never been
able to restore it to the family OF the
officer, and he has now given it to the
division in order that they may take
measures to see that it is returned to
the proper persons. Maj. g. G. CrOckel,
of Virginia, accepted it in the name of
the Pickett Division association, prom
Using to do all that was possible to find
the family of the officer. Col. COwan
then introduced Gen. Badly Smith and
Gen. Hunt to the association, by whom
they were received with cheers. The
party then broke up and returned to
TOWN
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04

From his recent Boston speech: Now
word about the great curse of the la
boring man-strong drink. Had | 10,-
100000 tongues and a throat for each
tongue / would say to each man, woman
and child here tonight: Throw strong
drink aside as you would an ounce of
liquid hell" Tremendous applause
1t sears the conscience; it destroys
everything it touches; it reaches into
the family circle and takes the wife you
have sworn to protect and drags her
down from her pinnacle of purity into
that house from which no decent woman
goes alive. [Applause.] 1t induces the
father to take the furniture from his
house, exchange it for money at the
pawnshop, and spend the proceeds in
rum. 1t damns everything it touches.
have seen it in every city east of the
Mississippi, and l know that the most
damning curse to the laborer is that
which gurgles from the neck Of a bottle.
[Cheers.] l had rather be at the head of
an organization having 100000 temper
ate, honest, earnest men than at the
head of an organization of 12.000.000
drinkers, whether moderate or any other
kind.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
The Champion BIacksnake.

While out hunting recently in the vi
cinity of Washington Court House, o.,
Officers Dixon and Mcclellan noticed
some birds creating cOmmOtion about
the trunk of an old dead tree. They in
vestigated the cause of the birds fright
and noticed an object prOtruding about
a foot from the hole in the tree. They
fired at the object and it darted back
into the hole, not making his appear
ance again for about fifteen minutes,
when, to the surprise of the hunters, a
large blacksnake made his exit from the
hole and, coiling himself around the
tree, began to descend. He saw the
men, however, and started up the tree
again, when a shot from their shotguns
brought him squirming to the ground.
They examined his snakeShip and found
that he had been robbing birds nests of
their young, and at the time had three
young birds in his hide. He was meas
ured and found to be nearly ten feet in
length
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
BLOODY Chicago.

CHICAGO, July 3.-Three cases of fatal
shooting and assault occurred in this
city last night. Ferdinand Penneroiz, a
laboring man, was fatally shot by John
Healy, an eighteen-year-Old boy of bad
reputation. Healy's parents lived in
the fiat over PennerOiZ, and John was
amusing himself by firing off revolver.
Penner0iz requested him to desist, as
one of his children was seriously i'll.
Healy thereupOn turned the revolver at
Penneroiz and shot him down, fleeing
Immediately after. Patrick Healy, his
father, on hearing of the affair, fell
down the stairs in fit and sustained
fatal injuries John Okner. an inoffensive
Swede. together with his brother Gus
tave, was assaulted by a party of
drunken men. He knocked one of the
party down, when all set upon the
brothers and beat them terribly. Be
fore leaving one of them ripped John S
abdomen open with large knife. lie
will die and his brother will lose an
arm. William Fisher, young team
ster. was shot and instantly killed by
revolver in the hands of John Oumondo,
an attache of cowboy show. The
shooting was accidental.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
A Boatman's Faux Pas.

Atlanta Constitution.
Last Summer, as everybody knows,
President Cleveland went fishing in the
Adirondack mountains. One day he
was out on a lake, and was accompanied
by Mrs. Cleveland and lady and gen.
tleman from Texas. The Texans wife
was in a boat with the president. Mrs.
Cleveland was in boat with the Texan.
A rainstorm came up suddenly and botn
men''pulled" for the nearest boat house.
The had hardly got inside when two
young men, presumably the owners,
were seen in boat pulling for dear life.
AS their boat ran against the two al
ready at the boat house one of the
young men called out to his companion:
''What the HI is this?" Then
seeing the ladies, he blushed
and begged pardon. The Texan
explained the situation. The young
men were very polite and bit patron
izing. The Texan remarked: Per
haps | should introduce your COM
pany." The prOfane young man indi-
Gated his willingness. This" said the
Texan. presenting the fat man, is Mr..
Cleveland, president of the United
States" The profane young man col
lapsed. turned pale and came near
falnting. 'And this is Mrs. Cleveland, !"
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Stabbed to Death.

SPRINGFIELD, o., July 3.-Between
l and O'Clock this morning a cold
blooded murder was committed in this
city, the victim being Dennis MahOney,
a target tender for the Indiana, Bloom
ington Il Western railway. His body
was found about 5 o'clock near
the target house on Pennsylvania street
in the eastern part of the city. He had
been stabbed through the heart with a
dirk or long-bladed pocket knife. For
several months that part Of the city has
been infested with gang of car robbers
and petty thieves, and it is believed
that Mahoney was murdered by that
gang because he knew too much for
their safety. No other motive for the
crime has yet been discovered. Several
suspects have been arrested, but the
case is still shrouded in mystery.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
A Fools Fate.


Special to the Globe.
PITTsBURG, July 3.-Shortly after 6
o'clock this evening a skiff containing
five persons was capsiZed in the Ohio
river by the swells from the passing tug
boat. j. NJ. Bowel, and two of the Occu-
pants, Richard Lane and wife, were
drowned The three others, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Paine and baby. were res
cued by a cOlOred man named Brown.
The party was out on pleasure ride,
and Lane, who was rowing. pulled into
the waves of the tug boat to frighten
Paine and the women. The boat imme-
diately upset and Lane and his wife
were not seen after they went down the
first time. Paine clung to the skiff and
managed to hold up his wife and child
until Brown came to their aid. Lane
had been married but few months.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
ELOPED WITH A NEGRO.
A Pretty Indiana White Girl Ar
rested With an Old Black Man.

A Pretty Indiana White Girl Ar
rested With an Old Black Man.
Chicago Mail.
A big black man, who looked like a
farm hand, accompanied by we'll
dressed and intelligent-looking white
girl, was arrested a few days ago for
leaving the Gault house at Indianapolis
without paying for nights lodging.
The couple were found standing near
the corner of Canal and Madison streets
and taken to the DeSplaineS station. A
bundle of letters found in the girls bag
gage disclosed the fact that the two had
just elOped from RuShville, Ind. The
negro was the porter at. the Heritage
house in Lima, o., by name Logan
ID. Wright. His companion is
Miss Mary A. Devine, the daugh-
ter of well-tO do farmer near RuShville.
Among the letters was one from the
girls sister, beseeching her to have
nothing to do with ''that old black ne
gro, Logan" as the affair was the talk
of the town and was breaking their
mothers heart. When Capt. Schaak
was trying to get the negr0's name from
Miss rDevlne he told. her the OffenSe
would warrant them in hanging him to
the nearest tree. The girl burst into
tears, and, crying II love him! l love
him!" begged the captain in the most
piteous way to spare his life and take
her own.
"Why do you want to live with big,
black, ugly negro like Wright?' asked
Lieut.. Ross of the girl.
Because love him. | loved him the
first time l ever saw him. He's mighty
well educated, too; studied to be min
lister, but he thought he'd better keep at
his trade. He's plasterer. He used to
live in Rushville, and it is there L got
acquainted with him, and then l left
home and went to work at HeitZefS hO-
tel in Lima, o., where he boarded. We
made it up to come to Chicago. The. Of
ficers said they was agoing to hang him,
but, oh, hope they WON'T"
The negro is a round-headed, flat
nosed specimen of his race, apparently
about 45 years of age, although he says
he is only So. Miss Devine says she is
81 years old, although she does not look
it. Wright, the negro, says he meant to
marry the girl, and swears she is as pure
as the SNOW ITSELF
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UNEARTHING A THIEF.
How an English COnsul's Dis
honest Servant Betrayed Him.

I1Ow du LIS.
honest Servant Betrayed Him.
self.
jewelers. Weekly.
Since the days of King Solomon and
his wise artifice for the settlement of
the ownership of the child brought be-
fore him, there have been, in Eastern
nations, most clever ruseS for the de-
lection of guilt. Possibly the ignO-
rance and superstition of the common
people there give ampler scope for such
methods than would exist with us.
After a grand dinner in AleppO, given
by the English consul, some of the sill
yer ware used at the fete mysteriously
disappeared. Suspicion fell upon the
servants, and even the police who were
in the house at the time.
The consul, after mature reflection,
called upon the most intelligent of the
police, or carasses, as they are termed
in Turkey, and questioned him. The
carass insisted that he did not steal the
silver, and that he had no idea who did.
The consul, being a very shrewd man,
then said: ''There is no need of your
protesting. l have good reasons for
suspecting you to be the thief, and L
mean to place you in the hands of the
authorities, unless you bring my silver
W ulc Wltllll tWCuty -lOuI HoulS.
Il will do all in my power to discover
the robber," said the frightened caraSs,
''but must beg of you, i'll return, to act
passively as shall bid yOu.''
The consul promised, and the officer
disappeared. In an hour he returned,
leading little donkey, and asked that
the animal might be placed in dark
ened room, and that all the servants of
the house should then be assembled.
When these arrangements had been
made the carasS said: ''NOw, we
are to enter this room one by one and
are to take pull at the dOnkey'S tail.
The donkey will make no sign unless
the rObber is among us, and if he is
you may depend upon it that he will
bray, and indicate the thief. Now" to
the consul, ''yOu go in first and pull the
tail"
Everyone complied with these direc-
tiOns, but the donkey did not bray.
s.Hcw strange it is" said the caraSs,
When the performance was over and the
rooEl had been relighted. cit seems that
the thief is not to be found among US.
| cannot explain it otherwise. Stand
about me in a circle, ladies and gentle
men, and hold up your hands,"
Everyone obeyed.
''Here is your man, Mr.. Consult"
cried the carass, pointing to servant.
"YOu see, every one who pulled the
dOnkey'S tail got his hands blackened:
this man did not touch the tail and his
hands are clean."
The man confessed and the silver was
returned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
kissing Under the Dome.
Special to the Globe.

Special TO the GIobe.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-Two young
ladies who are evidently seeking pecu-
liar notoriety have succeeded in Great
ing sensation. One of them tells OF a
guide in the capitol building who in
suited her and,her companion, another
young lady of tender years. Those who
know the capitol, and the efficiency of
its police force, are unwilling to believe
all that the misses tell. They say that
the two guides walked with them about
the building and asked them to separate,
which they did, each girl going with
stranger away from her companion into
the dark and remote reccsseS of the
great building. One of them alleges
that she was hugged and kissed. and
the other makes statements even more
serious. But the strangest part of it all
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
4 Couple of Wisconsin Rural Gentle
men Quarrel and One Stabs the
Other Fatally.
Gore Flows Freely in the Reform City
of Ghicago---Three Men Mortally
Wounded on Sunday.
An Inoffensive Old Man Stabbed to
Death at Springfield, 0.---Jake
Sharp Failing.
The "0wl Gang" at Pittsburg Beat a
Young German to Death---An
Iowa Fratricide.
Special to the Globe.

Speclal TO the GLOBE.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, July 9.-An officer
from ThOrp village, Clark county,
brought here this afternoon and lodged
in Jail George Morris, who fatally
stabbed John Splitter near Thorp. Spit
ger and others in wagon and Morris on
foot were returning early this morning
from a dance at ThOrp. Splitter and
Morris, who were both intoxicated, had
high words, when Splitter jumped from
the wagon and clinched with Morris,
who drew a pocket-knife and deeply
stabbed Splitter in the abdomen. Spit
zer, who cannot recover, I'M an ante-mOr-
TEN statement claims Morris came up
behind and attacked him, while Morris,
in jail, to-day claimed Splitter assaulted
him without prOvOcation, and that Spit
ger had him down in the road and was
pounding him. Both parties are farm
ers. Morris was brought here because
of strong threats of lynching at Thorp.
He was covered with blood from head to
foot
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04
FOUR BEAUTIES SENT BACK
European Sweethearts May Not
Ship Prospective Wives to
America

America.
NEW YORK, July 3.-When the
routine business of the meeting of the
Castle Garden committee of the board
of emigration was concluded, Supt.
Jackson brought up the names of four
female immigrants who had arrived
during the week, and whom he had re-
tanned for the decision of the committee
as to the prOpriety of letting them land.
They are not maidenS, neither are they
wives. but all had to declare in the
presence of DR.. Schultz that they left
SweetheartS behind them in their native
land.
The first who made the declaration
was Maren RusmaSsen, a native of Den
mark, who came Oh the steamship Taor-
mInia from Hamburg. and who will
have to go back on the same to meet the
man she calls Christian Peterson.
Anna Wiertjes arrived on the Elbe
two days ago from Bremen. She is the
victim of a cOvetOuS parent, who said
that lnelf HinduS was not good enough
for her because he did not have as much
wealth as Anna. Anna paid her own
passage to America, and also purchased
a ticket TO st. JOsephS, Mimi. She had
lots of money to pay her way thither
and promise from Wulf that he will
follow and marry her in the wild West
soon. The commissioners insisted that
the ceremony should be performed in
her native town in Prussia.
Anna RutZingcr and Johanna Dalli-
nies are both Germans and came Oh the
steamship Bergenland yesterday from
Antwerp and Will have to go right back
when the ship sails thither. Franz Zim-
norman was the cause of Anna taking
a fancy to this country. Johanna de-
clared on oath that John Whitman would
follow her in two months from the date
of her leaving him. The commissioners
advised her not to trust his promise.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-07-04

showers have fallen throughout the dis
trict within the past four days, which
have been of material benefit to both
cotton and corn. With rare exception,
our 312 correspondents, as rule, report
good stands, with the plant forming and
blooming well. The condition of the
crop is not only more favorable than
last year, but is ON an average fully two
weeks earlier. This is most promising
outlook for cotton. Corn, however, in
drouth, but the indications are that a
full average crop will be raised-mOre
than will be needed for use within the
district and considerably in excess of
the last year.
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High UD Engineers.

HOTEL KATERSKILL, n. Y, July s.
The members of the American Society
of Civil Engineers and their guests,
numbering in all $50 persons, wOr-
shipped on the mountain top here this
afternoon. At the meeting of the society
tomorrow the principal topic of dis
cussion will be the POughkeepSie
bridge. There will be grand display
of fireworks on the plateau in front of
the hotel at night and ball in honor of
the engineers will be given. On Tues
day the society will inspect the Pough-
keepsie bridge and on Wednesday the
cement works and deposits along
ROndOut creek,